The story of Oscar Wao and his cursed family, as told by Oscar's friend Yunior.
It took me over a month to get through the first hundred pages; the writing is very rich, and I had to keep re-reading paragraphs over and over at work, which is replete with distractions and the need to multitask; it needs a lot of your attention to get through and retain.
Checking out the audiobook helped to make everything so much more vivid, and gave Oscar more personality than just the typical sad nerd. He started to feel almost like a Don Quixote to me (and to others too, apparently, upon a quick Google search.)
The story has a lot of Spanish, a lot of swearing (also often in Spanish), a handful of D&D and other nerdy references, and a lot of mention of intercourse. If you can't handle that combo, this may not be for you. When the narrator mentions that the pendejo took 8d10 damage while getting beaten up, I smile even if it's because my favorite character is almost dying.
The main ways I connected were through character, language, and story.